TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan’s leading electronic component manufacturer, Alps Electric Co.,
Ltd., (Alps Electric) (TOKYO:6770) (President: Toshihiro Kuriyama;
headquartered in Tokyo) will be exhibiting at the China International
Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) to be held at the Shenzhen Convention &
Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from Wednesday,
September 6, 2017, to introduce the company’s time-proven lens products
for optical communications.

At CIOE, one of the world’s largest exhibitions in the optoelectronic
industry, Alps Electric will be exhibiting the latest technologies in
lenses for optical communications and the products, which have more than
a 25-year history in the market in the form of optic fiber components,
optical drives and pickups in CDs, and lenses for submarine cables.

Under the circumstances where the volume of information is increasing
because of the use of IoT and AI and thus downsizing of data center
devices is wanted, the narrow aspherical glass lens, which we are
introducing as a solution for data centers, boasts a width of only 0.6
mm even with a chucking area. The lens achieves high efficiency in a
light coupling through the optical design and microfabrication
technologies that Alps has been developing for a number of years and
therefore contributes to the speeding up of data communications.

The Alps booth will also propose, from our lineups for the on-board
product market, the latest technologies designed to meet future demand,
including aspherical glass lenses integral with lens tubes for heads-up
displays (HUDs) and hybrid lenses for LIDAR systems that are used in
self-driving cars.

History and Achievement of Alps Electric in the Optical
Communications Field

Founded in Tokyo in 1948, Alps Electric developed the first aspherical
glass lens as a core component for the self-developed CD pickup unit in
1985. Since then, it has been improving its optical design and
manufacturing technologies and developed one of the world’s smallest
aspherical glass lens for optical communications in 1990. Some types
were employed for use in submarine cables that require high reliability,
and thus the company acquired a large share of the market at that time.
The company satisfies wide-ranging market needs with its mass production
system of stable quality using molding techniques that have been
cultivated since its foundation and a variety of products.

Efforts of Alps Electric in the Chinese Market

In 1984, Alps Electric started exporting plants for producing color TV
components for the launch of its business in China. Based on its
philosophy “Rooted in the local community and contribute to local
industry,” the company has six manufacturing bases, three development
bases, and seven sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Shenzhen,
and so on.